ioned by los angeles distribution and broadcasting, inc. tonight, the major winter storm, drivers stranded, a plane off the runway. blizzard conditions already tonight. more than 100 million americans in its path. blinding snow, winds, the passenger jet losing control. from the rockies into the northeast. rob marciano standing by with the track. also tonight, concerns over a possible outbreak. federal officials now at several major american airports in place, set to screen certain travelers. what we know about this mysterious virus. the highway shooter and gunmen opening fire at passing cars. at least 20 cars hit. what authority haves now revealed. the iran missile attack on the u.s. military.

what we did not know. u.s. service members wounded, check for concussions. several flown out for treatment. new arrest just as we come on tonight amid the state of emergency in virginia. authorities say there have been credible threats of neo-nazis. president trump's legal team revealed tonight. in new york city, the deadly gas explosion that made headlines, leveling several buildings, killing two. tonight the major new headline. and our person of the week. she's been known as rose, sue ann, and and tonight she marks a giant birthday. who is our person of the week? . it's great to have you with us here on a very busy friday night. for millions at the been a rough ride home already tonight. a monster storm bearing down. more than 100 million americans under alerts from the rockies into the northeast.

drives facing blinding snow and gusting winds. this is minnesota where cars are on the highways tonight. a delta passenger jet off the taxiway. the runway shutting down. tonight, news coming in of a deadly avalanche hitting a ski resort near lake tahoe. one person killed. the storm heading to chicago and then east, several cities in the path. we have to timing and path. alex perez is in the storm zone. >> reporter: tonight, blizzard warnings in the upper midwest, as that power storm creating whiteout conditions. vehicles stranded, visibility near zero. this ups truck jackknifing on interstate 94 in north dakota. in omaha, nebraska, drivers struggling for traction. >> this car continuing to have issues as it makes its way up the hill. >> reporter: first responders racing to accident scenes. >> we had to extricate that

person, removing the roof of the vehicle. >> reporter: an icy glaze covering this kansas state trooper's cruiser. in kansas city, missouri, delta flight 1114 bound for detroit sliding off the taxiway. >> the captain came on and said, you're not going to believe this, but we hit a patch of ice and someone is going to have to tow us out of here. >> reporter: conditions forcing the airfield to chose for a time. around the countrier more than 4,000 flights delay or cancels. in the west, a deadly avalanche near lake tahoe, california. >> they are assembling the nordic rescue team. >> total patient count is two at this time. ! a 34-year-old man killed and another seriously hurt at the alpine meadows ski resort. after more than two feet of snow in just 24 hours. david, you can see, check it out, the snow already falling at a steady clip here in chicago. things will get messy here. some areas will get five inches of snow, which will then be followed by ice and freezing

rain as the night goes on. just getting around is going to be a big headache for a lot of people. also, david, there's a ground stop at o'hare because of this weather. >> what a mess already. rob marciano said this was going to happen. alex, thanks to you. let's get back to rob. he's timing it out just as we start the weekend. >> this storm now phasing together. it's a full-on blizzard across the northern plains moving rapidly to the northeast. nothing positive i can find is it's moving quickly. moving to chicago. the warnings still up fromk ko all the way up through northern new england. let's time it out. snow increase in the chicago. detroit, i think you see snow for most of this event. high 8 0s, cut offline. moving to philly, new york, and boston, with accumulations there. ice accumulations as well. here in upstate new york where it's been a slow start, tomorrow will be white this time of night. >> winter is back.

rob marciano, thanks to you. as several airports brace for this storm, they're preparing for something else. there's growing concern over a possible outbreak over a mystery virus. preparing to screen passengers coming into the u.s. the pneumonia-like illness report in the china, spreading to japan and thailand. abc's gio benitez and our doctor tonight on what you need to know. >> reporter: tonight, a massive screening effort begins for about 5,000 passengers arriving from china after a mysterious respiratory virus has killed 2 and sickened at least 45 in asia. the cdc deploying about 100 experts at san francisco international, l.a.x., and new york's jfk, where the first flight from wuhan, china, arrives in just hours. >> they'll be asked where they were in the previous two weeks, whether they came into contact with any animalsed that symptoms of an upper respiratory infection. >> reporter: experts believe

this is a new kind of coronavirus, which typically causes symptoms of the common cold, but in some rare cases can lead to pneumonia. an of two other corona viruses, sars and mers proved deadly, but tonight it's unclear if this new virus is easily spread person to person. >> other coronaviruses like sars and mers have taught us they need to be taken seriously. >> reporter: most of the patients in china contracted this virus at a seafood and meat market in wuhan, but some cases have already been reported in thailand and japan where screening is also underway. >> this is obviously very concerning some gio is with us from a busy kennedy airport tonight. gio, the cdc is calling this a serious situation tonight. >> reporter: yeah, david, that's because more than 60,000 people travel from wuhan to america every year. the cdc says the risk to the american public is low, but, david, they want to be ready. >> better to be ahead of it. gio, thank you. next this friday night, the

alleged highway shooter arrested in north carolina tonight, accused of shooting 20 cars. tonight the images of shattered windows and authorities now say the shooter is just 14. here's victor oquendo. >> reporter: this car window shattered by a suspected highway sniper. >> it was still just mind-blowing and still shocking to see something like that. >> reporter: it all happened along u.s. 264 in north carolina this week. authorities say at least 20 passing cars, shot and damaged with a high-powered pellet rifle. the wilson county sheriff says they started receiving calls yesterday morning. drivers reporting bullets blasting through their windows. others saying the sides of their cars had been damaged. hugh scott is a principal at a local school. he was on his way to a school sporting event when his car got hit. >> i thought this was an isolate incident at the time. finding out that more vehicles had been shot, i felt that i needed to make people aware that this isn't a hoax. >> reporter: tonight, deputies arresting a 14 year old-boy,

releasing these images of a nest made out of tree branches. that's where officials believe the teen hid and fired shots at passing drivers. >> i am truly blessed and very grateful that this wasn't a more serious incident. >> reporter: deputies set up patrol. they found ammunition near the nest and that's what led them to the 14-year-old suspect that live in the area. tonight he's been charged as a juvenile. thankfully, no one husband hurt. turning to the iran mfl missile attack at the u.s. military. members wounded, sent out for treatment. u.s. officials confirming at least 11 service members were wounded. when did the pentagon know? here's martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: on the night of the iranian missile attacks and the

hours immediately following, president trump and pentagon officials said there were no injuries from the missile strikes and that the damage was only minimal. >> no americans were armed in last night's attack by the iranian regime. >> reporter: the u.s. forces benefitted from an early warning system, and most were in bunkers at the time of the attack, but we now know on the very night of the attack, january 8th, a number of service members were examined for concussions, although they returned to duty following the attack. soon afterwards, some of the injured reported persistent symptoms, and others reported new ones. on january 10th, one service member had to be flown out of iraq for treatment. on tuesday at a campaign rally, the president repeated that there were no injuries. >> i said how many killed? nobody, sir. i said, how many hurt?

they said, nobody sir. >> reporter: the next day, january 15th, ten additional service members were flown out to either germany or kuwait and screened for traumatic brain injury. less than 24 hours later, the defense secretary was notified and prepared a statement that was released shortly after the story first appeared in defense one. >> let's get to martha raddatz tonight. the president said no injuries as you reported for days. do we know when the pentagon learned of all of this? >> reporter: the pentagon says leadership didn't know about the medical evacuations until yesterday because the forces in iraq would not have been required to report them unless they were considered life threatening. but, david, a lot of questions remain. >> martha, thank you. now to the senate impeachment trial. his team revealed, including two well known names on cable news.

>> reporter: finally, after weeks of indecision, sources say president trump has settled on a team to represent him at his senate impeachment trial, and it includes a couple of big names. ken starr, the former independent counsel whose investigation into president bill clinton's affair with monica lewinsky triggered clinton's impeachment. and high profile harvard law professor alan dershowitz. both men have been frequent and vocal defenders of the president's on fox news. >> they would be abusing their power if they impeach president trump. on this record. >> it is a lesson, and a nasty lesson, in how not to do impeachment. >> both men also represented convicted sex offender jeffery epstein, who committed suicide last year, helping to negotiate a lenient sentence for epstein in 2008. dershowitz also helped defend o.j. simpson. already, and not surprisingly, there's confusion on the trump team. dershowtiz, who will handle the constitutional issues surrounding impeachment, today telling dan abrams he's not

really on the president's team. >> i will be there for one hour basically, presenting my argument, but i'm not a full-fledged member of the defense team in any realistic sense of that term. >> reporter: as for starr, after the clinton impeachment, donald trump had to this say about him. >> i think ken starr is a lunatic. i really think that ken starr is a disaster. >> reporter: starr and dershowitz join a defense team led by white house councel, pat cippollone and the president's personal lawyer jay sekulow. >> the president want at one point his strongest defender in the house to make his case in the senate, but it looks like that won't happen. >> reporter: it won't. think of the proceedings. they were ferocious defender of the president, and he wanted them in the senate. mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader said that's not going work, because in part having house members to defend the president, just didn't work and

in general they want a more lawyerly defense. >> terry, thank you. next this friday evening, word of new arrests amid astate of emergency? virginia. the fbi arresting three members of the neo-nazi group, the base in virginia. reporting credible threats from the alleged neo-nazis. >> reporter: tonight in georgia, three suspected members of a neo-nazi group called the base are around arrest, charged with conspiracy to murder members of the left wing group antifa. the fbi linking to case to the arrest of three other armed members who investigators believe were plotting to attend a gun-rights rally in richmond virginia with hopes of starting a racial war. >> we had received credible intelligence from our law enforcement agencies that there are groups with malicious plans. >> reporter: virginia's governor

declaring a state of emergency, temporarily banning weapons from capitol grounds. the state capital on edge. two years after a neo-nazi plowed his car into a crowd of protesters in charlottesville, killing 32 heather heyer and injuring dozens of others. now place say this man, a member of the base and a founder arres with three men in georgia. >> i know they're stepping security ahead of the rally in richmond? >> reporter: they sure are. law enforcement sources telling me there's a much heavier presence of local and state police. they don't want to see another charlotteville.

counterprotesters also pulling out. the harvey weinstein sexual assault trial in new york. seven men and women have been set to hear the case. several accusers could testify against him. weinstein insisted he did nothing wrong. opening statements are expected next wednesday. a new setback for boeing as it tries to get its grounded fleet of max jets up in the air. the company discovering a new issue with the software update. boeing now with another problem to solve before the jets can fly again. the company grounded ten months ago after the crashes overseas. the massive explosion today, the pictures coming in tonight, the aerial footage showing flames shooting into the skies. first responders on the scene right now. the other explosion. the one in new york city. i made national headlines.

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